Card Control [trick]

nikhilg · Dec 21, 2008

Hey people,
A card effect that I came up with and have been playing around with for a couple of years. It is one of a few tricks in my series called midget magic. This involves no gimmicks of any kind, and just normal decks of cards. It can be performed live and with ease. It is very simple and involves minimal sleight of hand.

No I will not reveal.

Comment and Rate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1MNvU6yrhc

CaseyC · Dec 21, 2008

I like it dude. Great idea. I also like how you would make a spectator think they are being let in on the trick. I love sucker effects. Have you performed this yet? What were the reactions like?
Good job. Still kinda unsure about the method. lol

nikhilg · Dec 21, 2008

Card Contro [trick]

Hey card clip, I have performed this live and they went absolutely berserk. The reactions you get are like nothing I have experienced before. If many people expressed interest in this effect, I might put 4 more effects out like this and make it into a mini-downloadable thingy with the methods and stuff.

CaseyC · Dec 21, 2008

cool. thanks for sharing!!!

Randomwrath · Dec 21, 2008

I posted this on youtube as well.
That was very nicely performed. Only discrepancy was when the card was selected and signed. That looked a little fishy - maybe use a double to have it signed? Apart from that this was very nice, didn't catch any slights or suspect moves.

Well done, it looked like a very good job. Good work.

Toby · Dec 21, 2008

nikhilg said:
Hey card clip, I have performed this live and they went absolutely berserk. The reactions you get are like nothing I have experienced before. If many people expressed interest in this effect, I might put 4 more effects out like this and make it into a mini-downloadable thingy with the methods and stuff.

Sounds great... Count me in

Cheers

ramosynthesis · Dec 21, 2008

Nice little effect man! I'm sure it does get some good reactions. Count me in as well!

Eclipse14000 · Dec 21, 2008

ill buy (wc)

nikhilg · Dec 23, 2008

Thanks for all of your support. Before I consider doing any of this, I am submitting the trick at papercranemagic. They seem to be interested and are asking for my method. I hope it all goes good. Anyway thanks guys.

CaseyC · Dec 23, 2008

nikhilg said:
Thanks for all of your support. Before I consider doing any of this, I am submitting the trick at papercranemagic. They seem to be interested and are asking for my method. I hope it all goes good. Anyway thanks guys.

Cool!! Can't wait! and great job on the routine.

jazzhands1 · Dec 23, 2008

Ah, I wish I could do this trick.
Does it require a set up?

nikhilg · Dec 24, 2008

This is not completely impromptu because of course it needs 2 decks. But I have developed an alternate method the can be performed when somebody hands you a deck and says "do that trick."

supernaturalone · Dec 24, 2008

I personally think that was horrible. Here's why...

That force used in the beginning was horrible!

The move where you apparently outjog the selection looks horrible!

You then slide the card to the side some and proceed to handle the deck suspisiously for about ten seconds(00:30 - 00:40) for no apparent reason at all. Then you remove the card! Why move it to the side first if you are just going to remove it?

You then perform some needless and sloppy flourishes. Then you add the card back to the deck and apparently mix it up. Why did you even bother removing the card?

However, the appearance of the card for the ending was nice. I think this effect is a good idea, a good premise. However, both the handling and presentation need A LOT of work.

nikhilg · Dec 24, 2008

Is anybody interested in the street magic version of this trick? I thought of it yesterday.

CaseyC · Dec 24, 2008

nikhilg said:
Is anybody interested in the street magic version of this trick? I thought of it yesterday.

i'd like to see it. can you film it?

nikhilg · Dec 24, 2008

I can, but I don't want to. I am going to keep playing around with this until it is perfect. I released Hidden a couple of months ago, but it still needed much work, so I am not going to make the same mistake again.

toyrobot · Dec 24, 2008

Isn't this pretty much Sean Fields' Akross?

Take a look.

nikhilg · Dec 24, 2008

I checked it out and I felt that the video was too hard to follow, so I sent a Pm to Sean about it, so everything should be okay. I am sure, my method is much different, since it involves no palming or duplicates/gimmicks, etc.